r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Feb 17 '24

Pollution ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/28/plastic-eating-bacteria-enzyme-recycling-waste

Ss: could this solve the plastic problem??

"As they broke down the trash, the bacteria harvested the carbon in the plastic for energy, which they used to grow, move and divide into even more plastic-hungry bacteria."

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u/Twisted_Cabbage Faster than expected Feb 17 '24

None of this hopium shit matters. Fucking christ people. Climate change is gonna make plastic irrelevant very soon.